This is unquestionably one of the most fascinating sonic offerings of the year. While the pacifier plummeted from the quivering lips of wailing and whining drone doom newborns the world over at this "outrage" to Boris' long legacy of cooking up thickly tube distorted pooling stews of amplifier worshiping guitar goop, some of us with our hearing still intact were at the worst puzzled by the band's newest curiosity. If anyone kept up with the Heavy Rocks EPs they might have seen this coming. That being said even I was shocked at the outrageous additions of hoover synth lines and club-friendly beats on the now classic song, "Black Original"'s album cut. Nonetheless, like Abruptum, this is another example of what closed-minded type metalheads piss all over because they can't stomach it and were so sure they could stomach anything. Moreover, Boris have made this shocking switch to J-Pop inspired flare with a good deal of taste. The songs, while poppy, are really good and at times reach a level of melodic beauty reminiscent of their balladen hits "Farewell" and "Naki Kyouko". In concert too they were courteous enough to incorporate a good amount of their most widely appreciated material while maintaining a performance environment in the long and grandiose tradition of their country-mates and predecessors, hair metal dignitaries Loudness and X Japan. In short, this sort of incidentally sonically offensive bubblegum is what this blog is all about. This is for Party Boys only.
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